- Isabelle Dunn: Hearing and Speech Sceinces
I came to the lab for the opportunity to work one-on-one with pateints as well as get a better understanding of the implications of aphasia. Right now I am performing initial evaluations for study participants and assisting in the collection and interpretation of data.
|
- Clinton Rebello: Psychology, Chemistry, and Biochemistry
Research interests are TBD. Current research Project, N/A. Currently performing administrative tasks.
|
- Lauren Graham: I'm a first year graduate student with an interest in working with adults (particularly in an acute care setting). I chose to work in the lab because of the opportunity to work with people with aphasia in a research setting. I'm currently working on recruitment for the treatment of verb inflections in aphasia study, and will be running two more participants in upcoming months.
|
- Monica Sampson: Hearing and Speech Sciences, Graduate (PhD)
Research interests are Jargon Aphasia, Bilingualism,. Current research project is the nature of monitoring in aphasia, neural correlates of language representation in bilinguals.
|
- Kristing Grunwald: Psychology
I got involved in the lab because I took a class with Dr. Shah my freshman year on brain imaging and aphasia and found it fascinating. Currently I'm analyzing MEG scans of young normals for the anomaly experiement so we have a reference to compare the brain scans of aphasic participants to.
|
- Mohan Singh: Speech Language Pathology Masters student
I have a background in mathematics and I am working on databases for the lab as well as the "morphophonology reaction time"study.
|
- Lisa Pyun: Physiology and Neurobiology
Current work in lab, independent study/project concerning the neuroimaging of bilinguals
|
- Christine Virion: Speech Language Pathology Masters student
|
Announcements:
Lisa Pyun received an Undergraduate Research Fellowship sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Insitute in 2008 for her honors project titled "Single word processing in bilinguals: a neuroimaging investigation". The highly competitive HHMI fellowships are provided to support innovative undergraduate projects in the biological sciences in select American Universities. Lisa's project, mentored by Dr. Faroqi-Shah, will use magnetoencephalography to examine word processing in Spanish-English bilinguals.
Christine Virion (MA SLP) was awarded the NIDCD Student Fellowship to present her MA thesis project at the Clinical Aphasiology Conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in May 2008. The project, titled "Go aphasia!: Examining the efficacy of Constraint-Induced Language Therapy for agrammatic aphasia" was mentored by Dr. Faroqi-Shah. These merit-based fellowships include a travel stipend and mentoring opportunities. |
